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US-11435946

Intelligent wear leveling with reduced write-amplification for data storage devices configured on autonomous vehicles

PublishedSeptember 6, 2022
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Technical Abstract

Systems, methods and apparatus of intelligent wear-leveling with reduced write-amplification for data storage devices configured on autonomous vehicles. For example, a data storage device of a vehicle includes: storage media components; a controller configured to store data into and retrieve data from the storage media components according to commands received in the data storage device; an address map configured to map between: logical addresses specified in the commands received in the data storage device, and physical addresses of memory cells in the storage media components; and an artificial neural network configured to receive, as input and as a function of time, operating parameters indicative a data access pattern, and generate, based on the input, a prediction to determine an optimized operation for wear leveling among memory cells in the data storage device. The controller is configured to perform the optimized operation for wear leveling based on the prediction.

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2. The data storage device of claim 1, wherein the artificial neural network includes a spiking neural network.

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3. The data storage device of claim 2, wherein the artificial neural network is configured to receive write activities in the commands and identify logical address groups having write operations correlated in time.

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4. The data storage device of claim 3, wherein the optimized operation for wear leveling includes combining wear leveling operations with predicted write operations.

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5. The data storage device of claim 1, wherein, in response to receiving a write command predicted by the artificial neural network for the data stored in the candidate memory region, the controller is configured to write data into the alternative memory region, in accordance with the write command and the data stored in the candidate memory region.

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6. The data storage device of claim 5, wherein the data storage device is configured in a vehicle; and the operating parameters include operating parameters of the vehicle.

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7. The data storage device of claim 6, wherein the operating parameters of the vehicle include a speed of the vehicle, a location of the vehicle, an input from a sensor configured on the vehicle, a status of a vehicle control, a status of an infotainment system of the vehicle, or a status of an advanced driver assistance system of the vehicle, or any combination thereof.

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9. The data storage device of claim 8, wherein the neural network accelerator is further configured to train the artificial neural network using training data generated in a training period; and wherein the training data includes write activities in commands received in the training period, the operating parameters in the training period, data placement schemes implemented in the address map in the training period, and write amplification performance indicators measured during the training period for the data placement schemes.

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10. The data storage device of claim 8, wherein the neural network accelerator is further configured to train the artificial neural network using training data; and wherein the training data includes the operating parameters in a time period, and optimized data placement schemes determined for data access patterns recognized from the operating parameters in the time period and optimized for a combined target of write-amplification reduction and wear-leveling.

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13. The method of claim 12, wherein the prediction includes an optimized data placement scheme optimized for a combined goal of write-amplification reduction and wear-leveling.

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15. The vehicle of claim 14, wherein the artificial neural network includes a spiking neural network; and the data storage device is further configured to generate training data and train the spiking neural network to generate the prediction.

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September 5, 2019

Publication Date

September 6, 2022

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